Zinc Search Engine – A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

6 points by prabhatsharma 4y ago ↗ HN

Hello friends, I built a search engine in Go. It is a lightweight alternative to elasticsearch. Let me know what you think. https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc

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devKnight 4y ago ↗

awesome, you should make a demo site, so that people can test it out.

prabhatsharma 4y ago ↗

Sure. Thanks for the feedback. Will start with a video and then a demo site.

karmakaze 4y ago ↗

In using Bluge/BM25, the quality of search results could be comparable to ES out-of-the-box, though I imagine that ES is more tweakable.

Another/better way to position this might be to compare it to full-text-search available for popular databases since they both offer simple non-distributed setups.